Kiev is not interested in a fair and unbiased investigation into the downing of the Malaysian plane over Ukraine, so it is sabotaging the work of international experts, one of the self-defense forces leaders said on Wednesday.

Kiev’s authorities have been obstructing the international
investigation into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines plane since
day one, Deputy Prime Minister of People's Republic of Donetsk
Andrey Purgin told Russia-24 TV channel on Wednesday.

Purgin said it became clear that Kiev is sabotaging the probe two
days after the incident, when international experts were not let
into the area, as Kiev claimed it could not guarantee their
safety.

Kiev simply refused to accompany the international experts,
Purgin stated. The Malaysian group of experts made it down to the
crash alone, with no security from Kiev.

More disturbing news is awaiting verification, as according to
the DNR PM Aleksandr Boroday, speaking to RIA Novosti by phone, a
Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet attempted to shoot at a group of
Malaysian and OSCE experts working at the scene of the Boeing
crash on Wednesday.

“Another group of Malaysian and OSCE experts has arrived at
the scene of the Boeing crash. They were fired upon by an
Su-25,” he said.

A group of three Dutch experts at the crash site, guarded by
local defense forces, is continuing to work.

The news came just as
local residents in the city of Torez, 20km from the crash scene,
said that Ukrainian artillery used the Grad system to
“shower” the city with bombs. Torez is within the 40-km
safety radius allowed for investigations and agreed by the
warring sides as being neutral at this time. The ceasefire had
been earlier ordered by President Poroshenko.

It took four days for international experts to gain access to the
site. The reason is that even after Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko announced a 40-kilometer ceasefire zone around the
crash site, Malaysian experts came under heavy shelling from the
Ukrainian army while making their way within the ceasefire zone.

Speaking to the press on Thursday, spokesperson for the OSCE,
Michael Bociurkiw, said that the self-defense forces stationed
around the Boeing crash site are not impeding the investigation
in any way.

The Boeing 777-200ER, which was on a scheduled flight from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 passengers and crew on board,
was shot down over Ukraine on July 17. There were no survivors.

Kiev authorities have accused the militia of being behind the
catastrophe. However, the militia stressed that it doesn't
possess the means to shoot down an aircraft at such an altitude.

Following the crash, the dead bodies were left under 30C heat, as
self-defense forces were pressured by the OSCE not to move the
bodies until the international experts arrived, the Donetsk
People's Republic's Prime Minister Aleksandr Boroday told BBC.

“We waited a day, two, three – but no experts,” Boroday
said. “They were all sitting in Kiev.” To keep the dead
bodies laying there became “absurd” and
“inhumane,” he added.

The Ukrainian militia handed over to Malaysian experts the black
boxes from the plane on Tuesday. Investigators say they have
found no evidence that the black box recorder was tampered with.

The Dutch Safety Board said it has taken charge of the
international investigation. It will coordinate a team of 24
investigators from Ukraine, Malaysia, Russia, Germany, the United
States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It added that four Dutch
investigators are currently operating in Ukraine.

The bodies of the first victims from Malaysia Airlines flight
MH17 arrived back in the Netherlands on Wednesday.

A day earlier, the UN Security Council condemned the downing of
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and called for an international
probe into the incident in a unanimously adopted resolution.